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Nokia announced N8, the first Symbian^3 based device

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Still looks terrible. And after the N97 debacle (where an ex-Nokia employee demod half the promo video as being faked) I'm a little skeptical of Nokia products.

Sad, as in 2007 they had 3G and webkit on a pure-screen device.

Have to agree, there looks to be very little innovation in Symbian^3. The only interesting thing I saw, as a developer, was the unified Qt SDK letting you target Maemo, Symbian^3 and future releases, and S60 devices all in one go.

I still wouldn't write apps for it, though.

They're calling it "Symbian^3"? Unless you're targeting a personal tech product at engineers, why name your product so as to evoke the concept "math", something that many people not only dislike but fear because it makes them feel stupid?

Of course, I suppose most non-technical folks don't see "^3" as "the cubic function" but as "little-up-arrow-thingy three". Still.

I think Nokia might surprise everyone - Qt 4.7 with its new Qt Quick technology allows for some extremely slick user interfaces so while Nokia have certainly disappointed in the past and are way behind Android and iphone I wouldn't rule them out just yet!

Is this going to be a cheap smart phone? I mean we are in 2010 and technology is evolving quickly, a 360 x 640 screen resolution and 680 MHz CPU are enough? or because people care less about them? Actually, it surprises me a lot that it has a 12M Camera.

The retail price I've seen quoted a couple of places in €370, which would make it significantly cheaper than the iPhone or HTC android phones, and on par with the lower end Samsung Android phones. If they can make the UI work well enough I can see the combination of the Nokia name, cool selling points (HDMI out, 12MP camera etc.) and low price make this a phone that sells quite well.

Nokia is a little bit like BT in the UK. You buy Nokia regardless of the competition, because it's what you know.

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